Welcome to the Numbering Resources Page. The Commission’s numbering policies are designed to ensure the efficient and effective use of telephone numbers for the provision of telecommunications services. The Commission works closely with the North American Numbering Council, the Commission’s federal advisory committee on numbering issues, state commissions, and industry groups to achieve effective numbering resource management. The Commission has sought to optimize the use of numbering resources by: (1) minimizing negative impact on consumers of premature area code exhaust; (2) ensuring access to numbering resources for all service providers; (3) extending the life of the NANP; (4) imposing the least societal cost possible, and ensuring competitive neutrality; (5) minimizing incentives for carriers to carry excessively large inventories of numbers. Some of the measures used by the Commission include: area code relief; thousands-block number pooling; and local number portability.

11/08/07
REPORT & ORDER:Telephone Number requirements for IP-Enabled Services Providers. The Commission took a series of steps designed to ensure that consumers benefit from Local Number Portability (LNP). Docket 95-116, 04-36, 07-243. FCC No. 07-188.
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10/02/07
ORDER: Telephone Number Portability, Number Resources Optimization.Granted a temporary waiver of the Commission's rule for aging telephone numbers for residential customers in those areas declared as fire management assistance areas. DA 07-4112, CC Docket 95-116 & 99-200.
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04/26/07
ORDER: Numbering Resource Optimization, implementation of the local competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Telephone Number Portability. WC Dkt. No. 95-116,96-98 . FCC No. 07-65
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03/09/07
ORDER: Regarding Numbering Resource Optimization, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control's Petition for Delegated Authority To Implement Specialized Transitional Overlays, and of Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Petition for Clarification. CC Dkt. No 99-200. DA-07-1227.
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03/09/07
ORDER: Regarding Telephone Number Portability. Dismissed the Petition for Reconsideration as improperly filed and untimely. DA-07-1174.
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03/06/07
ORDER: Toll-Free Service Access Codes. CC Dkt NO. 95-155. DA 07-1053. Dismissed as moot the Petition for Dismissed as moot the petition for declaratory ruling.
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03/06/07
ORDER: Toll-Free Service Access Codes. CC Dkt NO. 95-155. DA 07-1063. Dismissed as moot the Petition for Emergency Relief and Expedited Action filed by the TFNC on 11/09/2000, and the Petition for Emergency Relief filed by TTFCC filed on 11/14/2000, both seeking to defer the release of the 855 toll free code DSMI.
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01/22/07
ORDER: Toll Free Service Access Codes. Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) grants, in part, the emergency request of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a component of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, to reassign five toll-free numbers utilized as suicide prevention hotlines to SAMHSA. CC Docket No. 95-155. DA 07-130.
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